GRE Word List
PHOENIX
a legendary bird which according to one account lived 500 years, burned itself to ashes on a pyre, and rose alive from the ashes to live another period
The meaning of the word phoenix is a legendary bird which according to one account lived 500 years, burned itself to ashes on a pyre, and rose alive from the ashes to live another period.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| arduous | hard to accomplish or achieve : difficult |
| chastise | to censure severely : castigate |
| gull | any of numerous long-winged web-footed aquatic birds (subfamily Larinae of the family Laridae) |
| profound | having intellectual depth and insight |
| contusion | injury to tissue usually without laceration : bruise |
| torrent | a violent or forceful flow of fluid |
| raze | to destroy to the ground : demolish |
| stoop | to bend the body or a part of the body forward and downward sometimes simultaneously bending the knees |
| syllogism | a deductive scheme of a formal argument consisting of a major and a minor premise and a conclusion (as in "every virtue is laudable; kindness is a virtue; therefore kindness is laudable") |
| impalpable | incapable of being felt by touch : intangible |